Director, Business Performance, Finance Operations

Intepros; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

IntePros seeks an experienced Director, Business Performance to lead the Finance Operations function in Chicago. This role connects financial and operational insights to strategic decisions, driving value creation across segments and initiatives.

The director will oversee a specialist team, partner with Segment Finance, Site Finance, Corporate FP&A, Operations, Commercial, and Procurement to implement planning methodologies and improve transparency into profitability, working capital, and

Qualifications

• Demonstrated senior finance leadership in a matrix, international environment.
• Strong ability to translate data into actionable business decisions.
• Expertise in budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning.

Responsibilities

• Lead budgeting, quarterly forecasting, monthly outlooks, and long-range planning.
• Establish performance frameworks and EBITDA bridge methodologies across segments.
• Improve profitability analytics, working capital, and capital investments.
• Provide executive decision support and scenario analysis for resource allocation.

Skills

Leadership

Financial planning

FP&A

Operations finance

Strategic thinking

Tools

OneStream

ERP systems

BI tools

Job description

IntePros is seeking an experienced finance leader to serve as Director, Business Performance within a growing Finance Operations organization. This senior-level position will lead the enterprise Business Performance function, connecting financial and operational insights to strategic decisions, measurable actions, and value creation.

The Director will oversee a specialist team and work closely with Segment Finance, Site Finance, Corporate FP&A, Operations, Commercial, Procurement, and other senior stakeholders. This role will establish consistent planning and performance methodologies while providing leadership with greater visibility into profitability, margin performance, working capital, capital investments, and strategic initiatives.

The successful candidate will be both a strategic finance leader and a hands-on operator who can translate complex financial and operational data into clear recommendations, accountability, and measurable business results.

Key Responsibilities

Operations Performance, Planning & Analysis

• Lead the Finance Operations contribution to annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, monthly outlooks, and long-range planning.
• Drive business performance review processes, partnering with Finance leadership to evaluate results, identify risks and opportunities, establish action plans, and monitor execution.
• Establish consistent planning methodologies, analytical standards, performance frameworks, and EBITDA bridge methodologies across business segments.
• Consolidate and challenge financial assumptions, forecasts, risks, and opportunities to provide leadership with clear visibility into business performance.
• Connect financial, operational, and commercial performance drivers to identify opportunities for improved business results.
• Provide decision support, scenario analysis, and executive insights related to resource allocation, strategic priorities, and value-creation initiatives.
• Partner with Corporate FP&A to ensure operational insight and business-level analysis are incorporated into enterprise planning and decision-making.
• Support oversight of new product initiatives and major strategic programs.

Margin, Cost & Continuous Improvement Performance

• Drive transparency into customer, product, program, service-line, and site profitability.
• Establish and continuously improve costing methodologies, profitability analytics, and contribution margin reporting.
• Identify margin leakage, profitability risks, and cost-improvement opportunities across customers, operations, and business units.
• Track and validate the financial impact of continuous improvement initiatives, including procurement, supply chain, manufacturing, operational excellence, and indirect spend programs.
• Partner with Commercial, Operations, Procurement, and Finance leadership to improve pricing, profitability, and margin performance.
• Ensure improvement initiatives translate into measurable financial results.

Capital, Cash & Investment Performance

• Maintain enterprise-wide visibility into approved capital projects, including approved spend, forecast spend, cash deployment timing, and benefits realization.
• Monitor capital expenditures against approved business cases, budgets, and investment authorizations.
• Identify and communicate risks, delays, and variances related to capital investments.
• Provide Finance Operations input into capital spending forecasts and cash deployment assumptions.
• Drive visibility and performance management of net working capital, including Accounts Receivable, Inventory, and Accounts Payable.
• Identify opportunities to improve cash conversion, working capital efficiency, and return on invested capital.
• Support post-investment reviews and ensure expected financial benefits are measured, validated, and communicated.

Leadership, Capability & Operating Model

• Lead and develop the Business Performance team across planning and analysis, continuous improvement and margin, capital and cash, and strategic initiatives.
• Establish practical methodologies, standards, tools, and quality expectations across Finance Operations.
• Create a consistent performance agenda across specialist teams and Segment Finance.
• Build organizational capability through mentoring, rotation, knowledge sharing, and succession development.
• Advance reporting automation, data quality, and analytical tools in partnership with FP&A, IT, and other stakeholders.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior Finance leadership and represent the Finance Operations organization when appropriate.
• Develop a scalable team structure with strong technical expertise and reduced key-person dependency.

What Success Looks Like

• Improved transparency and decision-making across the organization.
• Measurable improvements in margin, working capital, capital effectiveness, and overall business performance.
• Consistent financial planning and performance methodologies across business segments.
• Strong partnership among Business Performance, Segment Finance, Corporate FP&A, Operations, and Commercial teams.
• A high-performing, scalable finance team with strong talent development and succession planning.
• Clear accountability and disciplined follow-through on business performance initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• 12+ years of progressive finance experience, including leadership experience in business performance, operational finance, FP&A, finance transformation, or a comparable discipline.
• Demonstrated success leading teams and finance capabilities within a publicly traded or similarly complex international, matrixed organization.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing economics, profitability, operational value drivers, working capital, and capital investment.
• Proven ability to influence senior Finance, Operations, and Commercial stakeholders and translate financial analysis into measurable business actions.
• Strong forecasting, scenario analysis, business-case development, and executive communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to operate strategically while remaining close enough to the details to drive execution.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience within pharmaceutical, life sciences, contract development and manufacturing, or another complex manufacturing environment.
• Experience in a private equity-backed, transformation, or IPO-readiness environment.
• Experience building finance capabilities, common methodologies, specialist teams, or rotational talent models.
• Strong understanding of financial planning, consolidation, ERP, business intelligence, and reporting environments.
• Experience with OneStream or comparable financial planning and consolidation platforms.

Leadership Profile

The Ideal Candidate Will Be

• Enterprise-minded: Able to establish direction, create alignment, and balance standardized processes with individual business needs.
• Performance-driven: Connects financial insight to decisions, ownership, accountability, and measurable outcomes.
• A capability builder: Develops people, technical expertise, scalable processes, and succession plans.
• A trusted business partner: Comfortable challenging assumptions and communicating clearly with senior executives.
• Hands-on: Willing and able to engage in the details necessary to maintain quality and accelerate execution.